Thursday's meeting December 7, 2000 At the user's group, there were about 20 people. There were 5 computers being worked on. There were 3 Palm Pilots (Seth's, Rob's, and Patrick's). No Linux, but they were exchanging games and other interesting programs using the infared on their Palm's. Patrick had the neatest metal case for his Palm. It protect the Palm from damage. Paul admitted he lost Seth's stylus for his Palm Pilot. He wanted to let everyone know. So now everyone does. Seth started talking about Furby's gettting more memory. I brought up how I would like to see a wireless Furby. Parents could sit at their computers and have the Furby say, "What are you doing?". Could you imagine the child talking to their Furby not knowing it's their parents? The Furby could read your e-mail, web pages. Who needs a stupid little paperclip? How about your Furby asking the questions? The Furbys are cute and would be fun because they wouldn't be limited to small talk. Hey, why limit it to reading? They could be your next best friend with their voice. A Furby phone. I think it was Paul who said, "Are we getting Furby bored?". It was brought up how MS is changing some ports. Like Port 80. They decided to use it for SOAP (whatever that is?). What in the world are they thinking? They also mentioned some other ports which they're trying to use. I didn't write those down. If you would like some games, check out: http://www.happypenguin.org This is a good site, I never knew about it so I thought I'd pass it on. Bob talked about setting up a NAS box. Jamie and Bob talked about the NFS filing system. Bob told me I should run "localdb" after I install something. This allows "locate" to find the file. We also talked about hdparm and how much it increased our hard drive speeds. Mike did a search of that different Russian name he has. He found a CZECH page and was reading it to us. He admitted he could make it out but couldn't read it as fluent as some of his other languges. We used Netcraft to look up some popular sites and what they ran. If anyone has any neat little comands or sites or must have applications, let me know and I'll include it in my weekly e-mails. See you at the meeting. Tim
